Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:

  • By studying population trends and forecasting models, researchers have come to believe that nearly 15,000 U.S. cities will face noticeable depopulation by 2100.
  • Populated areas of the cities in question could experience a decline of up to 44 percent.
  • Projections call for the biggest drops in city populations to occur in the Northeast and Midwest.
  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    24 hours ago

    But sociology and economics are soft sciences, so obviously it’s pointless to use and never reflects reality. Unlike physics and engineering, where if it works on paper it will always work for real /s

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      23 hours ago

      Yeah, I really wonder about the mentality of people that would read that article and not wonder “what’s actually going on.” Like shit just kinda happens and we measure it when it does?

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        10 hours ago

        yeah, since as we all know, the world is actually hollow. there is nothing going on inside.